Featured Newsletter 19 May 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, May 2025 Lee Jae-myung expanded his tent while Kim Mun-su struggled. The presidential election is 15 days away.
Featured Elections 19 May 2025 First Polls for the June 3 Presidential Election Lee Jae-myung is the runaway leader.
Featured Business & Economy 16 May 2025 Trump Tariffs Hit South Korea Tariff also affects Korean manufacturers who relocated their production out of China.
Featured Blue House 15 May 2025 Burning in Stasis The most consequential week in South Korea’s democratic history.
Featured Business & Economy 14 May 2025 Financial Cushion Gets Thinner for the Middle Class: Data Savings are the lowest in five years.
Featured Newsletter 12 May 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, May 2025 The judiciary declared a truce while the People Power Party began circling the drain. The presidential election is 22 days away, as the official campaign period began.
Featured Business & Economy 12 May 2025 Short Selling Returns to a Battered Stock Market Short selling was banned as a way to pander to day traders.
Featured Newsletter 6 May 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, April 2025 The Supreme Court declared a total war of institutions.
Featured Conservatives 6 May 2025 People Power Party Promotes Lee Jae-myung Lee's book of quotes by the PPP became an unexpected hit.
Featured Newsletter 29 April 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, April 2025 Lee Jae-myung secured the Democratic Party nomination. Also: prosecutors indicted Moon Jae-in.
Featured Blue House 25 April 2025 Wildfire Totally Not Because of a Shamanistic Ritual, Says the Presidential Office Going out of its way to attack a fringe conspiracy theory would do little to dispel the persistent association between shamanism and the Yoon administration.
Featured Conservatives 24 April 2025 Constitutional Court’s Han Deok-su Ruling Sows Bewilderment The ruling is fueling wild speculations as to Yoon’s fate, as the Constitutional Court remains inscrutable with its conclave-like secrecy.
Featured Business & Economy 23 April 2025 Hanwha Aerospace Issues New Shares, Diluting Shareholders The new share issuance amounts to a trash-and-cash scheme.
Featured Newsletter 22 April 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, April 2025 The criminal trial of Yoon Suk-yeol began.
Featured Business & Economy 21 April 2025 Number of Coffee Shops Declines for the First Time: Data The explosive growth of South Korea’s coffee scene may be hitting a wall.
Featured Elections 18 April 2025 Kim Eo-jun’s Polling House Readies for Election Flower Research plans to spend more than KRW 1b (USD 690k) in the prospective election season.
Featured Society 16 April 2025 Tutoring Industry Gets Bigger, Younger The private tutoring industry has managed to grow in part by targeting ever-younger students.
Featured Newsletter 15 April 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, April 2025 Parties began gearing up for the snap presidential election.
Featured Bureaucracy 14 April 2025 Police, Presidential Security Hold Out for Yoon Return Pro-Yoon personnel within the bureaucracy are carrying on the fight
Featured Elections 11 April 2025 Most Koreans Want Yoon Suk-yeol Gone: Poll Lee Jae-myung and Kim Mun-su are the leading favorites for the next president.
Featured Blue House 10 April 2025 Yoon Suk-yeol Released, Crisis Continues The court and the prosecutors make up a legal loophole that applied to Yoon and Yoon only.
Featured Healthcare 9 April 2025 Chinese Nationals Contribute to National Health Insurance The popular bogeyman was based on incorrect data.
Featured Newsletter 8 April 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, April 2025 Yoon Suk-yeol was removed from the presidency.
Featured Conservatives 7 April 2025 Han Dong-hun Publishes a Book The former presumptive next president is on the move again.
Featured Breaking News 3 April 2025 Breaking News: Yoon Suk-yeol is Removed from Office On April 4, 2025, at 11:22 a.m., the Constitutional Court 헌법재판소 sustained the impeachment of Yoon Suk-yeol 윤석열, removing him from the office. The court found that Yoon's martial law declaration was a serious infringement of the democratic order, and rejected Yoon's argument that
Featured Liberals 3 April 2025 Lee Jae-myung’s Furious Race to the Center Lee’s reputation as a brash talker belies the fact that his policy positions have been guided by pragmatism, rather than ideological commitment.
Featured Society 2 April 2025 All Educated and Nowhere to Go: Data New Ph.D holders have few jobs available for them.
Featured Newsletter 31 March 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, March 2025 South Korea smoldered, both literally and figuratively.
Featured Key Players 31 March 2025 Obituary: Jeong Su-il, 91, Middle East Expert and North Korean Spy Cover identity or no, Jeong’s scholarship was real and world-leading.
Featured Society 28 March 2025 South Korean Society Turns More Conservative: Data Longitudinal data suggests Koreans more often see themselves as the upper class.
Featured Conservatives 27 March 2025 The Global Brain Rot Community The far-right of South Korea and the far-right of the United States have formed an alliance of derangement.
Featured Media 26 March 2025 Lee Jun-seok’s Media Proxy Gets the Axe Political consultant was paid to promote Lee on talk shows.
Featured Newsletter 25 March 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, March 2025 The Constitutional Court reinstated Prime Minister Han Deok-su, sowing confusion for the prospect of Yoon Suk-yeol’s removal.
Featured China 24 March 2025 Will China Lift Sanctions Against South Korea? The "Limit Korea Decree" has been in place since 2017.
Featured Blue House 21 March 2025 First Lady Loses Her Degree After Plagiarism Ruling Kim Geon-hee has been a millstone around her husband's neck.
Featured Conservatives 20 March 2025 Jeon Gwang-hun Rises to the Top of the Right-Wing The far-right pastor is the de facto leader of South Korean conservatives.
Featured Business & Economy 19 March 2025 New Alternative Trading System to Open Nextrade ends the 70-year monopoly.
Featured Newsletter 17 March 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, March 2025 The nation awaited the Constitutional Court’s decision in Yoon Suk-yeol’s impeachment trial. Also: South Korea’s anti-democratic conservatives.
Featured Elections 17 March 2025 More Post-Impeachment Polling Shenanigans Conservative voters are lying to pollsters.
Featured North Korea 14 March 2025 Dim Hopes for Improved Relations with North Korea: Data South Korean public expects little from Donald Trump.
Featured Conservatives 13 March 2025 Conservative Presidential Hopefuls Survey the Wreckage Any candidate hoping to win the PPP primary will have to pander to the election fraud derangement.
Featured Conservatives 12 March 2025 East Sea Gas Turns Out to be Hot Air Yoon's desperate bid to shore up his flagging support had no substance.
Featured Newsletter 11 March 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, March 2025 With Yoon Suk-yeol released from prison, the outlook for South Korean democracy suddenly became darker.
Featured Courts 10 March 2025 Yoon Suk-yeol Tells Obvious Lies at the Constitutional Court The fact that Yoon does not even bother to try makes his lies all the more insulting.
Featured History 7 March 2025 Court Rebukes the Government’s Lies Regarding Vietnam War Atrocities Seoul High Court went out of its way to disapprove the government position.
Featured Elections 6 March 2025 Among Democrats, “Sleeping Dragons” Begin to Stir Lee Jae-myung is in the lead, but he faces intramural challengers.
Featured Business & Economy 5 March 2025 Record Bankruptcy for the Elderly: Data Poverty is heavily concentrated in seniors.
Featured Newsletter 4 March 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, February 2025 Lee Jae-myung tried to appeal to the center.
